Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Award winners, Matches & Training

This Weeks Award Winners

Man of the Match - U10's girls v's Herbertstown
Winner - Laura O'Donnell
Laura worked very hard for the team in defence during the U10's match, making some great clearances when the team were under pressure from the opposition. Well done Laura

Man of the Match - U14's girls v's Murroe
Winner - Michelle Kiely
Michelle worked tirelessly for the team during the U14's game. She was a constant threat to the opposition, often picking up the ball in midfield, then running down the wing and in towards goal, passing 2 or 3 defenders each time. A great effort and there is no doubt the goals will come very soon. Well done Michelle

Pass of the Week - U10's girls match v's Herbertstown
Winner - Sarah Connolly
Sarah ran past the opposition with the ball and sent in an excellent pass to set up a great goal scoring chance for Caoimbe McCarthy, Well done Sarah.

The winners will have their certificates presented at this weeks training sessions.

Next weeks training sessions.
Monday - U14's boys, 6 - 7:15pm.
Tuesday - U12's boys, 6 - 7:15pm.
Wednesday - U6's & U8's b&g, 6 - 7pm.
Thursday - U10's boys, 6 - 7:15pm.
U10's & U14's Girls, 6:15 - 7:15pm.

This weekends matches
Sunday 18th Oct

U10's Boys,
St Patricks v's Castle United, Kick off @ 3pm.
Venue - Patrickswell

U14's Boys,
Croom United - v's Castle United, Kick off @ 4pm.
Venue - Croom.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

New awards scheme and winners + training & matches

Castle United A.F.C would like to announce our new club awards, the winners of these will be announced here and in the Vale Star each Thursday, and on our Bebo page. The catagories are as follows; Goal of the Week, Pass of the Week, Man of the Match (one for each match played) Plus at the end of every month we will have a 'Player of the month', and a 'Most improved player of the month', and these two winners will receive a sports shop voucher.

This weeks award winners are;

Goal of the Week - Shane Carroll
This goal was scored by Shane in the U12's away match v's Cappamore Celtic B, Shane hit a fantastic shot which saw the ball go sailing over the goalkeepers head from around 30 yards away from goal, and it has to be said it had a touch of class about it, well done Shane, same again next week please!!

Pass of the Week - Marty Farrell
This was made by Marty who looked up and sent in an exceptionally well weighted pass into our forwards to run onto, this pass completely opened up the defence of the opposition and gave the team a fantastic attack on goal, well done Marty.

Man of the Match U10's - Danny Moloney
This was a close call as there were a number of very good individual performances, but this award has to go to Danny who was a constant threat to the opposition in the home game v's Holycross, well done Danny.

Man of the Match U12's - Marty Farrell
In a game where all the lads played well and worked tirelessly for the team during the U12's game, Marty's performance was immense, his very strong defensive play, passing and movement was a great display of how to play the game both in terms of breaking down the oppostions attacks and setting up our own, well done Marty.

Player of the Month - Philip McCarthy
The 'Player of the Month' award for September goes to our U14's goalkeeper, who has instantly stepped into the position taking command of the ball, and making some great saves. He has a true talent for this position, and if he keeps working and improving on his game the sky is the limit.Well done Philip.

Most improved Player of the Month - Caoimhe McCarthy
Our 'Most improved player of the month' is one of our U10's girls players, who has improved a huge amount since starting training, she works hard both in training and in the matches and she has the makings of a very good soccer player, well done Caoimhe, keep up the good work.

Training sessions this week
Mon U14's Boys - 6 - 7.30pm.
Tues U12's Boys - 6 - 7.30pm.
Weds U8's & U6's - 6 - 7pm.
Thurs U10's Boys - 6 - 7.30pm.
U10's & U14's Girls - 6.30 - 7:30pm.

Matches this weekend, Sunday 11th Oct

U6's and U8's boys and girls 'away' to Knockainy, Kick off @ 1pm
U10's Girls - 'away' to Herbertstown, Kick Off @ 3pm
U14's Girls - 'away' to Murroe, Kick off @ 4pm

Good Luck to all teams.

Monday, October 5, 2009

The Weekend Report

Well afraid I cannot report a win, our best chance I felt was in our U14's probably our longest established team, but annoyingly their opponents didn't show up for the match..... (maybe they had heard we were going to win too!!;)

The U10's match on Saturday was a little disapointing, we had hoped for a close match and possibly even a win after a good showing in our previous match to Rathkeale, but despite some good strong individual players, our passing and positional play let us down, however we have some good players in the team and with a bit more work in training on those things should soon have them winning.

Sunday's U12's match away to Cappamore, however gave us good hope, the lads had learnt a lot from their last game and improved shed loads, their passing was better and were unfortunate to go in at half time 2 - 0 down as we had lots of possesion in the oppositions half, but unfortunately we conceded two soft goals, however with the way we were playing we went into the second half with a real hope that we could win this game, we started brightly but was caught on the counter attack and lost an early goal, but the lads kept plugging away and attacking and eventually with a moment of class from Shane Carroll who struck a fantastic shot from a good distance away from goal, the ball went sailing over the goalkeeper and into the back of the net, a shot any player would have been proud of, this give us real belief we could get a result, but in our attempts to score more the eagerness of the whole team meant they had forgotten their positions in the field and we had nearly all the team in the oppositions half, this left a big gap at the back of the field and we were caught on the counter attack and disappointingly we lost a further two goals, but it has to be said this was a very good performance, and gave all the lads a great boost and belief that their first win is just around the corner, which im sure it is, well played lads.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Its the weekend again!!

Off we go again lads, 3 teams representing Castle United are playing this weekend, We hope you will give them your support. Maybe even a win is on the cards????? My money is on the U14's against Donohill for a win today, they have been shaping up real well in training.....

This weekends action is Today (Saturday) at home

U14's boys against Donohill 12.30pm kickoff
U10's boys against Holycross 3pm kickoff

Sunday

U12's Boys away to Cappamore Celtic B kickoff 5pm
(bus leaving stakers at 3.15pm sharp - but booking essential beforehand!!)

Good Luck lads